Today CLXVII

Birthdays:

• Fredric Remington, painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in depictions of the American West, October 4, 1861 - December 26, 1909


• Damon Runyon, newspaperman and writer, October 4, 1884 – December 10, 1946


• Joseph Frank BUSTER Keaton, Jr., silent-film comic actor and filmmaker, October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966


• John Vincent Atanasoff, physicist, the inventor of the first automatic electronic digital computer, a special-purpose machine that has come to be called the Atanasoff-Berry Computer, October 4, 1903 – June 15, 1995


• Sir Run Run Shaw CBE, media mogul; he and his brother Run Me founded the South Seas Film studio in 1930, which later became Shaw Studio, 1907


• Frank Peter Joseph FRANKIE Crosetti, MLB shortstop for the New York Yankees from 1932 to 1948, October 4, 1910 - February 11, 2002


• Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg, theoretical physicist and astrophysicist, shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics with Alexei Alexeevich Abrikosov and Anthony James Leggett, 1916


• Geoge Sidney, film director, directed many films, mostly for MGM, October 4, 1916 - May 5, 2002


• Kenichi Fukui, chemist, shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Roald Hoffman, October 4, 1918 – January 9, 1998


• John Charles Carter, aka Charlton Heston, actor, 1924


• Alvin Toffler, writer and futurist, author of Future Shock, 1928


• Leroy Frank Van Dyke, singer, 1929


• Jacqueline Jill JACKIE Collins, romance novelist, 1937


• Kurt Wüthrich, chemist, shared the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with John Bennett Fenn and Koichi Tanaka, 1938


• Howard Allen O'Brien, aka Anne Rice, author of horror/fantasy books, 1941


• Anthony TONY La Russa, Jr., MLB manager, currently with the St. Louis Cardinals, 1944


• Clifton Davis, actor, 1945


• Susan Abigail Tomalin Sarandon, actress, 1946


• Jim Fielder, bassist, an original member of Blood, Sweat & Tears, 1947


• Armand Assante, actor, 1949


• Stephen Roark Gyllenhaal, film and television director, 1949


• Bill Fagerbakke, actor, 1957


• Tony Meo, former professional snooker player, 1959


• Joseph Martin JOE Boever, former MLB pitcher, 1960


• Isaac LIEV Schreiber, actor, 1967


• Alicia Silverstone, actress and former model, 1976


• Rachael Leigh Cook, actress, 1979

RIP:

• Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, painter, printmaker, and draughtsman, July 15, 1606 – October 4, 1669


• Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck, physicist, the founder of quantum theory, awarded the 1918 Nobel Prize in Physics, April 23, 1858 – October 4, 1947


• Janis Lyn Joplin, rock singer and songwriter, listen to her music!, January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970


• Glenn Herbert Gould, pianist, noted especially for his recordings of Johann Sebastian Bach's keyboard music, who gave up live performance in 1964, dedicating himself to the recording studio for the rest of his career, September 25, 1932 – October 4, 1982


• Graham Chapman, comedian and writer, one of the Monty Python members, January 8, 1941– October 4, 1989


• J. Frank Wilson, singer, December 11, 1941 - October 4, 1991


• Danny Gatton, guitarist, whose playing combined musical styles such as jazz, blues and rockabilly in an innovative fashion, known by some as "the telemaster" or "the world's greatest unknown guitarist," September 4, 1945 – October 4, 1994


• Arthur Stewart ART Farmer, jazz trumpeter, flugelhorn player, and bandleader, August 21, 1928 – October 4, 1999


• Michael Smith, CC, OBC, chemist, shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Kary Banks Mullis, April 26, 1932 – October 4, 2000


• Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr., astronaut, one of the original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first U. S. manned-space effort, March 6, 1927 – October 4, 2004